Garment-fastener.



No. 637,283. Patented Nov. 2|, 1899. a. T. REED & J. WHEATFIELD.

GARMENT FASTENEB.

(Application filed Apr. 6, 1898.)

(No Model.)

v wmwbozd mi- 6 4 ,0 Jfiem Jaw f UNrrE STATES GEORGE T. REED AND JACOB'WHEATFIELD, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNORS, BY DIRECT AND MESNEASSIGNMENTS, TO THE NATIONAL TOOL AND' STAMPING COMPANY OF BALTIMOREOITY,.OF MARYLAND.

GARM ENT-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,283, dated November21, 1899.

Application filed April 5, 1898. Serial No. 676,573. (No model.)

'1'0 on whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE T. REED and JACOB WHEATFIELD, citizens ofthe United States, residing at the city of Baltimore, in

the State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement inGarment-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

The improvement herein relates to fastenings for garments and likearticles in which to a hook and a hasp bar are secured to and adapted tofasten the meeting parts of garments, and particularly the waistband oftrousers; and the improvement resides in the construction of thehasp-bar, whereby it is applied by inserting it in holes made in thegarments, rendered self-fastening and made a permanent attachment as ahasp or loop. The simple and instant insertion of the haspbar in thegarment completes the attachment,

and it cannot be pulled out by force applied to it in any direction.

In the clasping-hook partthe improvement resides in a constructionwhereby it is inserted in a hole made in the garment and by suchinsertion rendered self-fastening at one end,

its other end being fastened by sewing; but the importance and advantageof the self-fastening end is that it sustains the pulling or force uponthe hook.

I In the claims and in connection with the accompanying drawings weshall point out the precise improvements.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 shows the hasp-bar, looking at theouter side; Fig.

2, an edge View, and Fig. 3 a View of the under side of the same. Fig. 4shows the under side of the same as applied to the garment, and Fig. 5shows the outer side of the haspbar as applied to the garment. Fig. 6shows 0 the outer side of the clasping-hook, and Fig. 7 its under side.Fig. 8 shows the outer side of the clasping-hook as it is applied to thegarment. Fig. 9 shows the under side of the same, and Fig. 10 shows thehasp-bar in partial blank form.

The hasp-bar A is stamped out from a strip of malleable sheet metal withidentical double ends, in which a tongue 0. C6 is out within each endintegral therewith. The tongues and these ends a a form theself-fastening parts for the hasp, as in Fig. 2, and these holding partsstand in the same plane parallel with the hasp-bar and in oppositedirections against the inner side of the garment, as in Fig. 4:, whilethe outer side of the bar forms the loop at the surface of the cloth forthe engagement of the hook fastened on the other side of the garment insecuring its meeting parts together. The tongues are cut so as to leavethe integral part of each end to permit them to be turned inward towardeach otherthat is, in opposite directions from the ends. At theseintegral joinings of the tongues the bar is bent so as to form shoulderswhich stand in the same direction as the tongues, and the shouldersterminate in the tongue and end parts, so that these parts will stand inthe same plane as seen in Figs. 2 and 3. This double-ended construction,with the tongues and ends of the bar standing in the same plane, rendersit easy to insert the ends in the holes in the garment, and when soinserted the tongues stand toward each other from the holes and the endsof the bar stand from each other from the holes, as seen in Figs. 4 and5, and each end of the bar is thereby locked to the cloth, so that itcannot be,pulled out endwise or sidewise. The selffastening function ofthe hasp-bar is perfect and permanent, because the three elements theshoulders, the ends, and the tonguescoact to render the hold of theloop-formin g bar entirely secure in the garment fabric.

The hook coacting fastening part may be of any suitable form andfastened to the other meeting part of the garment in any suitable way.The hook shown is well adapted for the purpose and is formed of aplateB, having a folded or lapped form, the part b of which forms the roundedhook at the outer side of the fabric, as in Fig. 8. The under or backpart b b extends from the hook bends b b and terminates in aself-fastening part formed of the end b and the integral tongue b whichstand in opposite directions in the line of the strain upon the hook.The tongue is stamped from the end part and is bent and turned backunder the back, as seen in Fig.

'7, so that the insertion of the end I) in a hole 1 herein described,consisting of a bent platein the garment places both the end and thetongue on the under side of the garment, while the back at the hook partis sewed to the outer side of the garment by means of the curved edgespurs b at the opposite edges of the back, as seen in Fig. 8. The openend part of the back may also be sewed to the fabric, as in Figs. 8 and9, but the self-fastening end and tongue securely hold the inserted end'of the back. It is important to note that the relation of the tongue tothe hook is such that the pulling force on the hook is resistedprimarily by the tongue in the fabric, While the tongue and its integralend parts serve as keepers in the fabric for the back-plate.

1. The improved article of manufacture herein described consisting of aloop or hasp forming bar, at each end of which are turned shoulders,tongues projecting therefrom inward toward each other and ends projecting outward from the integral ends of said tongues,the bar ends and thetongues standing in the same plane on the same side of the bar.

2. The improved article of manufacture hook formed with a back havingthe edge spurs, the projecting end and the tongue the latter standingunder the back toward the hook whereby to form a self-fastening in thefabric and sustain the pulling force upon the hook.

3. In a garment-fastening device, composed of a hasp-bar and a hook, thebar having shouldered and integral tongues standing toward each otherfrom said shoulders, on the under side of said bar, and ends standingfrom each other from said shoulders whereby to render the haspself-fastening, in combination with the hook having the end projectingin the same direction as the hook and the integral tongue standingtoward the hook on the under side of the bar, and the opposite edgespurs, whereby the hook is rendered self-fastening at the tongue end andsecured at its book end by sewing.

GEORGE T. REED. JACOB WHEATFIELD.

\Vitnesses:

MURRAY IIANsoN, WILLIAM H. BERRY.

